The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-14
YELLOW FEVER.
Tho People Of Tampa, Fla, Panic,
Stricken Over the Out.
break.
The Town Depopulated- Condition q
the Cholera Patients-Virulence
Of the Disease.
Ths Captain Of the Infected Vessel Ar
rested-Ainers Killed and Injured
in Kentucky.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1O.-The Marine Hos
pital Bureau has received telegram from
Deputy Collector Spencer, of Tampa, Fla,
Of which the following is copy: Twenty
six cases in ali; two deaths; questionable
rs to cause Of death of the two; majority OF
the sick convalescing; town depoDulated
and very little material left; doctors dis
agree as to whether the disease is dengue
or yellow fever" DR.. George W. Stoner,
chief OF the quarantine division, says that
il it is dengue there is no cause for alarm
nor necessity for rigid quarantine, but, ii
doubt exists, it is proper to act on the side
Of safety. Dengue, or as it is sometimes
called, breakbone fever, is a very distress
ing, infectious disease-not contagious
in the usual acceptance of the term and
rarely fatal unless complicated with other
diseases. 1t prevailed in the West Indies
and mary places in the South about fifty
years ago, and was prevalent in many
Southern cities in 1850. especially in Charles
ton, where about four fifths of the population
were attacked, but only a few deaths. rela-
lively, occurred. In yellow fever, on the
other hand, the mortality is sometimes as
high as seventy-five per cent. DIR. Stoner
believes that the disease at Tampa is yellow
fever. The Acting Surgeon General has
also received the following telegram from
Tampa: arrangements will be made to
fumgate mails between Plant City and
Lakeland on the line of tho road. Through
mails from Havana and Key West are
fumigated on board ships the same as has
been done all summer"
THE CHOLERA CASES.
New YORK. Oct. 10-Health Officer Smith
I, t,nln 40
that were thrust upon his hands by the
steamship Alesia, from Naples. 1t states
that the disease has been very vlrulent and
rapid in its fatality in the majority OF cases.
In several instances the patients were
well at one inspection and nearly pulse
less twelve hours later. The report also
describes how the vessel was fumigated,
thoroughly washed with boiling water
twice and afterward with a solution of cor
rosive sublimate, two parts to 1,WU OF
water. All clothing and textile fabrics
were soaked in the boiling water for hours,
and 100 pounds of sulphur were twice
burned in the hold. OF the eight removed
from the ship on her arrival, five died and
three recovered. OF those who recovered,
five are convalescent and the remaining
two are seriously ill., DIR. Smith thinks tho
infection is now entirely destroyed.
THE CAPTAIN ARRESTED.
New YORK, Oct. 1O.-Surveyor Beattio
has preferred charges against Captain Val
let OF the steamship Alesia. which arrived
here from Naples two weeks ago with
cholera on board. 1t is alleged that the
captain did not provide proper hospitals for
his passengers; that he failed to provide
tables and seats for the steerage passengers
and that in his manifest of passengers he
did not give the cause of death of those
who died on the passage. Captain Wallet
was held in 5000 for the grand jury.
STEAMBOAT SUNK.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Oct. 10-The steamer New
South and the Mobile and Ohio transfer
steamer W. b. Duncan collided in the har-
Dor last night. The New South was slight
ly damaged. The Duncan was landed on
the Kentucky shore and sunk in ten feet Of
water. 1t had eight loaded cars on board.
The damage is not estimated. The New
South proceeded on her trip to st. Louis.
MINE EXPLOSION.
DIzENvILLE, KY, Oct 10.-At Renokes
mines Saturday evening an accumulation
of the dust of bituminOus coal, supplement-
ed by several simultaneous blasts, which
were fired as usual when each shift leaves
the mine. occurred, and a number Of
miners, who were in close proximity to the
explosion were terribly hurt, one being
killed almost instantly and three fatally
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